There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white one in the unequal world of segregation. For the dishonesty upon which a society is founded makes every emotion suspect, makes it impossible to know whether what flowed between two people was honest feeling or pity or pragmatism.(Howell Raines's Pulitzer Prize winning article "Grady's Gift")-Sockett admired this quote and used it in her summary.
Kathryn StockettThe point is, I canโt tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the shame of being rejected and put your manuscriptโor painting, song, voice, dance moves, [insert passion here]โin the coffin that is your bedside drawer and close it for good. I guarantee you that it wonโt take you anywhere. Or you could do what this writer did: Give in to your obsession instead.
Kathryn StockettI look deep into her rich brown eyes and she look into mine. Law, she got old-soul eyes, like she done lived a thousand years. And I swear I see, down inside, the woman she gone grow up to be. She is tall and straight. She is proud. She got a better haircut. And she is remembering the words I put in her head. Remembering as a full-grown woman.
Kathryn Stockett...My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out was a fly on the X-ray machine.
Kathryn StockettShe's wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker.
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